HowTo.CompareUPnP History

Latest version of Twonky 5.01 is unable to handle my collection of >20000 songs, it runs out of memory. So I'm now in the process of trying all of the available media servers to find a replacement that is actively supported. Have tried Ushare, FireFly? and MediaTomb, Ushare is the only one so far to cope with the number of songs. Ushare has also streamed DivX? to my Showcenter 200 and XBMC perfectly. If only it had a better web interface and was able to mimic the menu presentation of Twonky my search would be at an end.

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Latest version of Twonky 5.01 is unable to handle my collection of >20000 songs, it runs out of memory. So I'm now in the process of trying all of the available media servers to find a replacement that is actively supported. Have tried Ushare, FireFly and MediaTomb, Ushare is the only one so far to cope with the number of songs. Ushare has also streamed DivX? to my Showcenter 200 and XBMC perfectly. If only it had a better web interface and was able to mimic the menu presentation of Twonky my search would be at an end.

Okt 2010: Have tested uShare, MediaTomb and finally Twonky. uShare just let you browse the files - no database, no ID-Tag reading, which is fine, because my 20 000+ files where up in under a minute, but when i browse the files with my AV-Receiver it gives me annoying timeouts every few folders i browse. So i tried MediaTomb - very easy to set up and configure but it took MediaTomb 24h to browse through half of my files - damn slow... I'm now very happy with Twonky, they support the NSLU2 again with verion 6.0.23 (2010) - can be found here: http://www.twonkyforum.com/downloads/6.0.23/. Suprisingly it brings an installer with it, which sets the whole thing up in < 1 minute (seems to work via telnet)! Indexing my 20,000 files was finisthed in 15 min and browsing the files with my AV-Receiver was very fast (flac is supported too). Will Update the Townky HowTo here now...

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Okt 2010: Have tested uShare, MediaTomb and finally Twonky. uShare just let you browse the files - no database, no ID-Tag reading, which is fine, because my 20 000+ files where up in under a minute, but when i browse the files with my AV-Receiver it gives me annoying timeouts every few folders i browse. So i tried MediaTomb - very easy to set up and configure but it took MediaTomb 24h to browse through half of my files - damn slow... I'm now very happy with Twonky, they support the NSLU2 again with verion 6.0.23 (2010) - can be found here: http://www.twonkyforum.com/downloads/6.0.23/. Suprisingly it brings an installer with it, which sets the whole thing up in < 1 minute (seems to work via telnet)! Indexing my 20,000 files was finisthed in 15 min and browsing the files with my AV-Receiver was very fast (flac is supported too). Updated the TwonkyVision Page.

October 04, 2010, at 05:23 PM
by flowoess -- Updated Twonky Data and made a little comparison

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Okt 2010: Have tested uShare, MediaTomb and finally Twonky. uShare just let you browse the files - no database, no ID-Tag reading, which is fine, because my 20 000+ files where up in under a minute, but when i browse the files with my AV-Receiver it gives me annoying timeouts every few folders i browse. So i tried MediaTomb - very easy to set up and configure but it took MediaTomb 24h to browse through half of my files - damn slow... I'm now very happy with Twonky, they support the NSLU2 again with verion 6.0.23 (2010) - can be found here: http://www.twonkyforum.com/downloads/6.0.23/. Suprisingly it brings an installer with it, which sets the whole thing up in < 1 minute (seems to work via telnet)! Indexing my 20,000 files was finisthed in 15 min and browsing the files with my AV-Receiver was very fast (flac is supported too). Will Update the Townky HowTo here now...

When using uShare with the D-Link Medialounge DSM-510 I receive error message 'Not authorized to browse this server.' However, it works flawlessly when the client is XBMC.

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When using uShare with the D-Link Medialounge DSM-510 I receive error message 'Not authorized to browse this server.' However, it works flawlessly when the client is XBMC.

Nov 3rd 2008
Latest version of Twonky 5.01 is unable to handle my collection of >20000 songs, it runs out of memory. So I'm now in the process of trying all of the available media servers to find a replacement that is actively supported. Have tried Ushare, FireFly? and MediaTomb, Ushare is the only one so far to cope with the number of songs. Ushare has also streamed DivX? to my Showcenter 200 and XBMC perfectly. If only it had a better web interface and was able to mimic the menu presentation of Twonky my search would be at an end.

I installed linux_mtpcenter_2.0 from a tarball, using lighttpd and mysql. It's sluggish on 6000 songs but works OK as long as you disable the background picture generation. Video playback is fine, has shoutcast radio stations which work fine. It's another option anyway (although I think it's mostly a Syabas solution rather than a UPnP server). I tried running with Apache first, but that was so slow it was unusable (1 october 2008).

Question - Feb 19th 2008 - Have you tried fuppes? I'm not going to pay for twonky and mediatomb was looking like the best option until your post above. Any idea how fuppes/uShare compare?

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Question - Feb 19th 2008 - Have you tried fuppes? I'm not going to pay for twonky and mediatomb was looking like the best option until your post above. Any idea how fuppes/uShare compare?

Bit of an answer from someone who didn't write this page - May 12th 08 - I'm using uShare at home. Memory usage is fine and my (Debian) slug can stream video to the xbox just fine. However I did try and set it loose on my music directory and it choked after 1000 songs

February 19, 2008, at 12:58 PM
by David Hicks -- Question to the author

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Note: Dec 21/2007. I tried MediaTomb 0.10 on the slug. It works...But. I have a music collection of 13000 songs. It took 24 hours to get through 3500 songs. I killed it at that point. Twonky took about 5 minutes. But now Twonky is NOT supporting NAS devices moving forward. So. Still searching for a good UPNP server.....

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Note: Dec 21/2007. I tried MediaTomb 0.10 on the slug. It works...But. I have a music collection of 13000 songs. It took 24 hours to get through 3500 songs. I killed it at that point. Twonky took about 5 minutes. But now Twonky is NOT supporting NAS devices moving forward. So. Still searching for a good UPNP server.....

Question - Feb 19th 2008 - Have you tried fuppes? I'm not going to pay for twonky and mediatomb was looking like the best option until your post above. Any idea how fuppes/uShare compare?

Note: The last time that I tried (about May 07), uShare would suppress albums, artists or songs having accented characters. While some systems replace only the unknown character with a box, uShare is filtering the whole content affected. Since I dont really need uPnP because my media player is XBMC, I switched to xbmsp which handles my MP3 lists without problems (and very fast). - elcano

Note: Dec 21/2007. I tried MediaTomb 0.10 on the slug. It works...But. I have a music collection of 13000 songs. It took 24 hours to get through 3500 songs. I killed it at that point. Twonky took about 5 minutes. But now Twonky is NOT supporting NAS devices moving forward. So. Still searching for a good UPNP server.....

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Note: Dec 21/2007. I tried MediaTomb 0.10 on the slug. It works...But. I have a music collection of 13000 songs. It took 24 hours to get through 3500 songs. I killed it at that point. Twonky took about 5 minutes. But now Twonky is NOT supporting NAS devices moving forward. So. Still searching for a good UPNP server.....

As of 2007-09-23, Mediatomb can support transcoding via plugins... this means that it should be able to transcode anything provided you can find the plugin for it. This functionality is still beta, but very promising.

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As of 2007-09-23, Mediatomb can support transcoding via plugins... this means that it should be able to transcode anything provided you can find the plugin for it. This functionality is still beta, but very promising.

Note: Dec 21/2007. I tried MediaTomb 0.10 on the slug. It works...But. I have a music collection of 13000 songs. It took 24 hours to get through 3500 songs. I killed it at that point. Twonky took about 5 minutes. But now Twonky is NOT supporting NAS devices moving forward. So. Still searching for a good UPNP server.....

Note: The last time that I tried (about May 07), uShare would suppress albums, artists or songs having accented characters. While some systems replace only the unknown character with a box, uShare is filtering the whole content affected. Since I dont really need uPnP because my media player is XBMC, I switched to xbmsp which handles my MP3 lists without problems (and very fast). - elcano

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Note: The last time that I tried (about May 07), uShare would suppress albums, artists or songs having accented characters. While some systems replace only the unknown character with a box, uShare is filtering the whole content affected. Since I dont really need uPnP because my media player is XBMC, I switched to xbmsp which handles my MP3 lists without problems (and very fast). - elcano

As of 2007-09-23, Mediatomb can support transcoding via plugins... this means that it should be able to transcode anything provided you can find the plugin for it. This functionality is still beta, but very promising.

Note: The last time that I tried (about May 07), uShare would suppress albums, artists or songs having accented characters. While some systems replace only the unknown character with a box, uShare is filtering the whole content affected. Since I dont really need uPnP because my media player is XBMC, I switched to xbmsp which handles my MP3? lists without problems (and very fast). - elcano

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Note: The last time that I tried (about May 07), uShare would suppress albums, artists or songs having accented characters. While some systems replace only the unknown character with a box, uShare is filtering the whole content affected. Since I dont really need uPnP because my media player is XBMC, I switched to xbmsp which handles my MP3 lists without problems (and very fast). - elcano

Note: The las time that I tried (about May 07), uShare would suppress albums, artists or songs having accented characters. While some systems replace only the unknown character with a box, uShare is filtering the whole content affected. Since I dont rreally need uPnP because my media player is XBMC, I switched to xbmsp which handles my MP3? lists without problems (and very fast). - elcano

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Note: The last time that I tried (about May 07), uShare would suppress albums, artists or songs having accented characters. While some systems replace only the unknown character with a box, uShare is filtering the whole content affected. Since I dont really need uPnP because my media player is XBMC, I switched to xbmsp which handles my MP3? lists without problems (and very fast). - elcano

The goal behind this page is to make a comprehensive comparison of the uPnP solutions out there specifically with the NSLU2 in mind. Ultimately, I hope to fill in all the unknown values above and add more.

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The goal behind this page is to make a comprehensive comparison of the uPnP solutions out there specifically with the NSLU2 in mind. Ultimately, I hope to fill in all the unknown values above and add more.

Note: The las time that I tried (about May 07), uShare would suppress albums, artists or songs having accented characters. While some systems replace only the unknown character with a box, uShare is filtering the whole content affected. Since I dont rreally need uPnP because my media player is XBMC, I switched to xbmsp which handles my MP3? lists without problems (and very fast). - elcano

The goal behind this page is to make a comprehensive comparison of the uPnP solutions out there specifically with the NSLU2 in mind. Ultimately, I hope to fill in all the unknown values above and add more.

I'd like to add the MediaTomb website (mediatomb.cc) but the wiki won't let me save the page if that address is on the page. Also, I'd like to get the external site links approved.

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The goal behind this page is to make a comprehensive comparison of the uPnP solutions out there specifically with the NSLU2 in mind. Ultimately, I hope to fill in all the unknown values above and add more.

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The goal behind this page is to make a comprehensive comparison of the uPnP solutions out there specifically with the NSLU2 in mind. Ultimately, I hope to fill in all the unknown values above and add more.

I'd like to add the MediaTomb website (mediatomb.cc) but the wiki won't let me save the page if that address is on the page. Also, I'd like to get the external site links approved.